Discografia de Caribbean Jazz Project by Pablo1217

(Actualizado 01/10/09)

(Dave Samuels)

With apologies to Simon and Garfunkel, someone told Dave Samuels it was all happening at the zoo - and the impromptu result was the Caribbean Jazz Project, now a decade long, Grammy Award winning phenomenon that has become one of contemporary jazz’s most compelling live attractions. Fresh from nearly two decades with Spyro Gyra, the vibes and marimba master got a call in 1993 from a promoter doing a jazz series at New York’s Central Park Zoo. His simple request: to put together “something interesting” for a September concert.

Although the personnel has evolved over the years, fans listening to the new two CD set Here and Now – Live in Concert — a two hour plus date recorded in March 2004 at the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild Concert Hall in Pittsburgh - will no doubt feel as gleefully seduced by the same type of spontaneity and infectious percussive energy that launched the franchise over 11 years ago.

(Paquito D’Rivera)

“For the first gig in 1993 my thought was to call Andy Narell, who I had played with previously, and Paquito D’Rivera, who I had always wanted to play with,” says Samuels from a tour stop in Houston with one of his other gigs, the vibe/marimba duo ‘Double Image’. “When we started rehearsing, we realized that we had discovered a unique and unexpected chemistry, sonically and personally. No one had ever heard vibes, steel pans and sax together with a Latin rhythm section before. We played a gig in Kentucky a few months later, and were soon seeking out a booking agent.”

The idea of a Caribbean Jazz Project recording was an easy sell to Heads Up founder Dave Love, whose label released the unit’s first two projects, a self-titled 1995 debut and 1997’s Island Stories. Soon the trio—backed by a rhythm section featuring the group’s current rhythm section - Argentinian pianist, Dario Eskenazi, Peruvian bassist, Oscar Stagnaro and drummer, Mark Walker — was performing upwards of 100 shows a year, delighting audiences with a wide-reaching Latin jazz mix that extended far beyond the typical Afro-Cuban and Nuyorican styles that were popular at the time. Narell brought his Trinidadian and Martinique pan sensibilities, D’Rivera mixed in his Brazilian influences and Samuels brought jazz to the party. The idea was to explore the roots of Latin music via the melding of musical cultures from Europe, the Caribbean and West Africa as a result of the slave trade.

(Andy Narell)

CJP might have disbanded in the late 90s when D’Rivera and Narell left and Samuels did his tribute project Tjaderized for Verve in 2000, but instead it found a new lease on life with two new all-star members (guitarist, Steve Khan and flutist, Dave Valentin) and a deal with Concord. For the next 2 studio recordings, the CJP was “the only Latin jazz band without a pianist.” Their subsequent discs with piano and no guitar — The Gathering and Birds of a Feather - earned Grammy nominations for Best Latin Jazz Recording; The Gathering won in 2003. The latest lineup chronicled on Here and Now features the original CJP rhythm section Dario Eskenasi on piano, bassist Oscar Stagnaro and drummer Mark Walker along with Argentinian Diego Urcola blowing heavy trumpet and flugelhorn and Venezulean percussionist Roberto Quintero.

“I didn’t know what to expect with all the personnel changes, but they turned out to be an incredible gift that reinvigorated the whole process of touring and recording,” says Samuels. “We’re bringing new music and influences to the fold and expanding our scope all the time. We’re always shifting. Are we Latin Jazz, or Jazz Latin? The recipe keeps changing, according to the tune or player we spotlight. On the live album, in addition to some originals, we take standards and redecorate them. ‘Stolen Moments’, ‘Naima’ and ‘Caravan’ all have shifting rhythmic feels and time signatures. We like to call ‘Night In Tunisia,’ ‘Nightmare in Tunisia’ because it starts out as a free improvisation piece. When we perform, our trademark is flexilibity.”

(Steve Khan)

Of course, releasing a live CD means that one performance — and thus one evening of whimsical rhythm patterns and improvisations - is captured for posterity above any other. Which suits Samuels just fine. “It was time to do a live album and make a definitive statement about what Caribbean Jazz Project is now. We wanted to capture the intensity and flexibility of the music we make. Studio recordings have time limitations and a certain sheen to them, while Here and Now gives us an opportunity to strip down to the bare wood. Rather than a snapshot, it’s like a motion picture.”

(fuente: www.smoothvibes.com/movabletype/archives/2005_05.html)

(Dave Valentin)

Una mirada técnica (y muy personal):

Polymetría y heterometría, contrapunto como locos, mezcla en la improvisación del lenguaje jazz fusión con no solo la síncopa afrocubana, sinó con mucha expresión musical latinoamericana, Tango, Samba, Bossa Nova, entre tantos.

Caribbean Jazz Project es una de mis 3 bandas favoritas (junto con Irakere y los Beatles), una delicadeza en la improvisación única, mezcla de timbres realmente exquisitos, precisión rítmica superlativa, un sonido muy fresco dentro de un estilo tan manoseado. Armonía jazz q me recuerda al maestro Bill Evans, un dejo de Pat Metheny en sus lineas melódicas, un gusto por la composición y los arreglos que se sobrepone a la típica pirotecnia monotemática del intérprete que se sabe hábil y enfoca su arte de una forma más ególatra que compositiva grupal, algo así como los Modern Jazz Quartet del Latinjazz... Uf, en fin, me termina abrumando el ejercicio de describir todo lo que me pasa y pienso a la hora de publicar las sensaciones que me provoca esta banda.

Formada por el vibrafonista y marimbista Dave Samuels, en conjunto con los maestros Paquito D’Rivera y Andy Narell, Caribbean Jazz Project es sin duda de los trabajos musicales que más satisfacción me ha dado en esta vida de músico, donde bajo la consigna de la tolerancia y la búsqueda de nuevas sensaciones, del estudio insensibilizador académico, el volver a fascinarse y envolverse con una banda, sobre todo latin jazz, era practicamente una real utopía.

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1995. The Caribbean Jazz Project



Track List:

01. One for Tom
02. Abracadabra
03. Carousel
04. Como un Bolero
05. Paco and Dave
06. Valse Triste
07. Latin Quarter
08. Todo Aquel Ayer
09. Three Amigos
10. Afro
11. Cafe Espana

Download Link:

http://www.mediafire.com/?kmdyznim0mn


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1997. Island Stories



Track List:

01. Bluellespie
02. Sadie's dance
03. Calabash
04. Tjaded Motion (for Cal Tjader)
05. Zigzag
06. Andalucia
07. Shadow Play
08. Libertango
09. The Lost Voice
10. Grass Roots

Download Link:

http://www.mediafire.com/?tzm0jjuzyzy


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2000. New Horizons



Track List:

01. Descarga Canelén
02. Ivory Coast
03. Rain Forest
04. Charanga Si, Si
05. A Night in Tunisia
06. Moon and Sand
07. Over the Horizon
08. Arthur's Dance (Danzón Para Arturo)
09. Safe and Sound (Sano y Salvo)
10. Rompiendo el Hielo en 2000

Download Link:

http://www.mediafire.com/?mnnynmnmjtm


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2001. Paraiso



Track List:

01. One Step Ahead
02. Naima
03. Maluco
04. Caravan
05. El Tacano
06. Five for Elvin
07. Second Opinion
08. Jamboree
09. Ca-Ni-Mo!
10. Obaricoso - Ritmos, Colores, y Sentidos

Download Link:

http://www.mediafire.com/?nodmlwjgrz2


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2002. The Gathering



Track List:

01. Rendezvous
02. Stolen moments
03. See You In A Minute
04. The Gathering
05. Bemsha Swing
06. Libertad
07. El Guarachero Intrigozo
08. The Path
09. Masacoteando

Download Link:

http://www.mediafire.com/?wetmzzjmamf


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2004. Birds Of A Feather



Track List:

01. Birds Of A Feather
02. On The Road
03. Turnabout
04. Against The Law
05. Tell Me A Bedtime Story
06. Valencia 1
07. Picture Frame
08. Blue
09. Weird Nightmare
10. Minor Mood

Download Link:

http://www.mediafire.com/?q3znmmmzjvd


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2005. Here And Now - Live In Concert



Track List:

CD1
01. Rendezvous
02. Stolen moments
03. Turnabout
04. Arthur's Dance
05. The Gathering
06. Picture Frame
07. Bemsha Swing

CD2
01. One Step Ahead
02. Mariella's Dream
03. On The Road
04. Five For Elvin
05. Naima
06. A Night In Tunisia
07. Caravan

Download Link:

CD1: http://www.mediafire.com/?mmnreyzoijf
CD2: http://www.mediafire.com/?jxnwfntmznz


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2006. Mosaic



Track List:

01. Nardis
02. St. Ogredol
03. Portraits Of Cuba
04. Afro Green
05. Wazo Dayzeel
06. Slow Dance
07. Spinnaker
08. Mambo De Luna (para Cachao)
09. Dusk

Download Link:

Parte 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?w2wywrmjzwy
Parte 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?22gj32mk4ko


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2008. Afro Bop Alliance



Track List:

01. Rendezvous
02. Naima
03. Five for Elvin
04. Soul Sauce
05. Picture Frame
06. Stolen Moments
07. Birds Of A Feather
08. Afro Green
09. Bemsha Swing

Download Link:

Parte 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?qmfmirhk2d2
Parte 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?zd3mnmozmyn








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